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[Avacado]

20 hours ago, Zonalo said:

Went and bought an x99 board that turned out to be junk off the local classifieds. Dude gave me a pile of stuff with it though and among it was this beast. 
 

no side panels and no clue what I’m going to do with it, but there certainly is a novelty to its size. 
(escalade for size reference )

Yep, that's the ThermalFake S8S copy. 

[tictoc]

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

I also just realized that the new X399 I bought is 3-way SLI and the current zenith extreme is quad and support bifurcation. So I might be sending it back and praying that the board was fine, but rather the 1900x was causing me trouble.

 

 

Probably too late, but the ASRock X399 Taichi is a great option for multiple GPUs with bifurcation support.  I ran 5x GPUs in mine with no issues.  Not sure if the latest BIOS has x8x8 bifurcation for all slots, but ASRock support sent me a BIOS with x8x8, x4x4x8, and x4x4x4x4 on all the slots.

 

I would definitely recommend a board that has auxiliary power for the PCIe slots if you plan on running more than 3 GPUs 24/7.  Otherwise you have a chance of burning up the 24 pin connector on the motherboard (at best or a toasted board at worst) if you are pulling full board power on your GPUs.

 

I've had great luck with these risers https://peine-braun.net/shop/index.php?route=common/home, since he first went into full production over on [H].

Edited February 19, 2021 by tictoc

[BWG]

7 hours ago, J7SC_Orion said:

@Bastiaan_NL ...I think I might have a decent 3950X sample on my hands. Apart from InFin 1900 / RAM 3800 out of the box, I ran some Cinebench R23 for the first time. CPU is not oc'ed yet (panning to really delve into it on the weekend), and have only done some efficiency work so far.  Also looking to undervolt the CPU a bit soon.

 

 

@BWG ...that Heatkiiler edition is exactly the one I'm planning to get for the 3950X; already have the TR4 version of that - amazing quality, performance and reliability. Right now, the new 3950X setup is running on a BeQuiet PureLoop 360 (but w/ six Arctic P12 in push/pull) and doing very well for an AIO w/ thin rad, but I would like much more rad volume

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I was going to try and wait for an Optimus, but these are right with them now.

[Avacado]

2 hours ago, tictoc said:

Probably too late, but the ASRock X399 Taichi is a great option for multiple GPUs with bifurcation support.  I ran 5x GPUs in mine with no issues.  Not sure if the latest BIOS has x8x8 bifurcation for all slots, but ASRock support sent me a BIOS with x8x8, x4x4x8, and x4x4x4x4 on all the slots.

 

I would definitely recommend a board that has auxiliary power for the PCIe slots if you plan on running more than 3 GPUs 24/7.  Otherwise you have a chance of burning up the 24 pin connector on the motherboard (at best or a toasted board at worst) if you are pulling full board power on your GPUs.

 

I've had great luck with these risers https://peine-braun.net/shop/index.php?route=common/home, since he first went into full production over on [H].

Yes for sure. The asus zenith extreme is a beast. Has 2 aux 8 pin 12v and a molex below the 6th pcie slot. I am actually swapping everything right now!

 

[BWG]

Part #	Product Description	Qty	Price	Total
ex-tub-1647	Monsoon 45� Rotary Angle Adapter - 3/4" OD - Blue (MON-RO-45-34-BL)	4	$5.50	$22.00
ex-tub-1640	Monsoon 90� Rotary Angle Adapter - 3/4" OD - Blue (MON-RO-90-34-BL)	2	$5.50	$11.00
ex-tub-1113	Monsoon Free Center Compression Fitting - 1/2"ID x 3/4"OD - Single Chrome (FCC-1234-1P-CH)	8	$3.50	$28.00

 

 

I have 10 blue compression fittings, 2 90 degree rotary blue already. I will use chrome on the new cpu block and blue compression with the blue rotary. They were out of blue compression though.

 

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by BWG

[GanjaSMK]

On 2/19/2021 at 5:45 PM, Avacado said:

Yes for sure. The asus zenith extreme is a beast. Has 2 aux 8 pin 12v and a molex below the 6th pcie slot. I am actually swapping everything right now!

 

*snip*

 

HOLY JEALOUS.

What a SICK array of hardware.

 

Seeing as how the cosmos has shown you considerable hw favor, may I please ask the cosmos to shine it's favor upon me....

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

On 2/19/2021 at 1:01 AM, Zonalo said:

Went and bought an x99 board that turned out to be junk off the local classifieds. Dude gave me a pile of stuff with it though and among it was this beast. 
 

no side panels and no clue what I’m going to do with it, but there certainly is a novelty to its size. 
(escalade for size reference )

That is a massive unit, I would have no problem filling that with hardware and watercooling! 
My second system is growing out of it's case

 

 

On 2/19/2021 at 1:29 AM, BWG said:

"cpu block" 

I have the acetal version, really love the HK blocks!

 

On 2/19/2021 at 5:50 PM, J7SC_Orion said:

@Bastiaan_NL ...I think I might have a decent 3950X sample on my hands. Apart from InFin 1900 / RAM 3800 out of the box, I ran some Cinebench R23 for the first time. CPU is not oc'ed yet (panning to really delve into it on the weekend), and have only done some efficiency work so far.  Also looking to undervolt the CPU a bit soon.

Good luck with it! I wish I had some motivation to dive into overclocking mine, for now I'm happy with how it runs stock
Undervolting would be a good thing though, that'll surely get the temps down a bit..

 

On 2/20/2021 at 2:45 AM, Avacado said:

Yes for sure. The asus zenith extreme is a beast. Has 2 aux 8 pin 12v and a molex below the 6th pcie slot. I am actually swapping everything right now!

Seeing all that hardware makes me want to build another system... 

[J7SC_Orion]

5 minutes ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

(...) Good luck with it! I wish I had some motivation to dive into overclocking mine, for now I'm happy with how it runs stock
Undervolting would be a good thing though, that'll surely get the temps down a bit..

 

tx...done mostly Intel HEDT and AMD TR, but never touched an AM4 before. Irony is that I only changed one setting in the bios, no 'traditional' oc such as all-core...with ambient at 23 C, temps peek at 80 C w/ CineR23 and 360 BeQuiet AIO / 6xArctic P12 in push/pull. Looking to do a custom loop for it (and the 3090 Strix OC in there) in the near future.

[Alex]

Got some Noctua NF-A14 fans to replace my EK Vardars that bearings were starting to click/tick:

 

 

 

[UltraMega]

I just put 1K into apple stock. Seemed like a good time to buy (on the dip).

[The Pook]

my HTPC (i3 8109u) does everything I use it for just fine ... so I dunno why, but Asrock X300W + Ryzen 5 4650G: 

 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

53 minutes ago, The Pook said:

my HTPC (i3 8109u) does everything I use it for just fine ... so I dunno why, but Asrock X300W + Ryzen 5 4650G: 

 

 

    
 

Nice ! The AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 4650G is an interesting 6c/12t 7nm CPU...while the CPU is apparently locked, the ASRock X300 site reads "Supports Overclocking Option with X300"...should be interesting to see if that applies to the 4650G as well ?!

[The Pook]

1 hour ago, J7SC_Orion said:

    
 

Nice ! The AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 4650G is an interesting 6c/12t 7nm CPU...while the CPU is apparently locked, the ASRock X300 site reads "Supports Overclocking Option with X300"...should be interesting to see if that applies to the 4650G as well ?!

 

to be honest I'm more excited to see how the crap Kingston SODIMM I'm carrying over from my NUC OCs, but I assume the 4750G is a similar story to the "locked but not really" 200GE ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[J7SC_Orion]

5 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

to be honest I'm more excited to see how the crap Kingston SODIMM I'm carrying over from my NUC OCs, but I assume the 4750G is a similar story to the "locked but not really" 200GE ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   

...here's hoping to not really...I read somewhere that all more modern AMD are actually not 'hard'-locked, but can't be sure. FYI, here's DerBauer doing his thing w/ 'locked' Epyc a few years back: 

 

 

Edited February 27, 2021 by J7SC_Orion

[Avacado]

20 hours ago, Alex said:

Got some Noctua NF-A14 fans to replace my EK Vardars that bearings were starting to click/tick:

 

 

 

+10 CFM per fan, cause shark. 

[J7SC_Orion]

....a little bit of this, a little bit of that...all part of expected multi deliveries for custom dual loop build-up

 

 

[tictoc]

New UPS for the new home server.

 

[Avacado]

2 hours ago, tictoc said:

New UPS for the new home server.

 

That must have cost a pretty penny. 

[Andrew]

I think those cost more than a penny. Even if it's a shiny one.

[The Pook]

whatever you do don't take penny advice from @iamjanco

[Sir Beregond]

Just ordered a G.Skill 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16 RAM kit from local Micro Center for the new build. Found searching for b die very confusing and an exercise in much futility. 

 

Once I get that, can finally test all the new parts and make sure they work.

Edited March 5, 2021 by Sir Beregond

[J7SC_Orion]

...more parts came in for my dual-loop build ...still missing a couple of items but getting there. I got the new build-itch bad...

 

So far today: 

 

- EK Strix 3090 OC GPU block

- 2x XSPC D5s

- 2x TT Pacific CL 480x64

- 2x Kryonaut thermal

 

...and also 2x old 160 mm 'thick' Black Ice Nemesis' rads to be rejuvenated...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2021 by J7SC_Orion
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[Avacado]

The moment you check your rewards points status and are forced to reflect on your "Problem".

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Step one: Accept that you have a problem

Uhm, lets skip that one

[Sir Beregond]

37 minutes ago, Avacado said:

The moment you check your rewards points status and are forced to reflect on your "Problem".

 

What's the problem? I don't see a problem...